Friday, March 31, 2017
Friday Links (questions that aren’t really questions edition)
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Friday Links (better things to ban edition)
It's Friday! It is the third Friday of March. It's also St. Patrick's Day, though I didn't come up with any holiday appropriate links this week.
I set up the Friday Links posts on Thursday evening to publish in the morning on Friday. About the time this posts to my FontFolly.Net blog in the morning, I'll be leaving the house taking my husband to the hospital. He's having surgery, it's a something he's been meaning to take care of for awhile. If everything goes as planned, I'll get to bring him home again on Saturday. Between prepping for that, continuing the packing, and usual work things, I didn't write as much this week.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
Woman finds boy who left $5, heartbreaking apology note.
If you cried over the first link last week, you may need another tissue for this: Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of 'You May Want to Marry My Husband', dies at 51 . (Links to more remembrances are below in the Farewells section)
Daylight saving time is just one way standardized time zones oppress you.
Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute.
Federal Court In Hawaii Blocks Donald Trump’s New Travel Ban Nationwide.
A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth.
A disturbing reality behind that Chinese tiger drone video making the Internet rounds.
5-Year-Old Girl Becomes The Sole Carer Of Her Grandmas, After Her Mother Abandons Her.
Judge: Army, FBI aware soldier a ‘substantial risk’ before he killed Marysville man and his girlfriend.
Dreamer stuck in detention, but case stays in federal court.
Here's What Happened At The Parents Of Trans Kids Mardi Gras Float.
Ironic Nazis Are Still Nazis - Hatred often hides behind a mask of jokiness.
First they came for Pepe: How “ironic” Nazism is taking over the internet.
One from the archives (I actually remember linking to this and some related stories about four years ago) .
And more recently: Putting the 'Neo' Back in 'Neo-Nazi'.
Last month: A white guy with a net worth of $124m making poor brown people hold up a sign calling for genocide is pure banter, isn’t it?
And to look at it academically: Derogating humor as a delegitimization strategy in intergroup contexts.
GOP Politician, Trump Surrogate Arrested for Soliciting Sex With Boy. Was state campaign chair for Trump, and he's voted for anti-trans and anti-gay bills, and more details: GOP Senator Surrenders On Three Felony Child Prostitution Charges, More Details Emerge.
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman Is Big Trouble With The Feds.
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority Announces It Will Accept Transgender Women.
Father and Daughter Come Out as Transgender.
RuPaul marries rancher boyfriend after 23 years together.
Federal regional bank appoints its first gay, black President and CEO.
Students wear rainbow colors to honor bullied trans teen who took her life.
Most Americans support LGBTQ rights across the board.
Atheist parents are better at raising children.
Aliette de Bodard on Diversity and Gender Roles in House of Shattered Wings.
R. Scott Bakker’s Novels: Brilliant and Deeply Flawed.
The Year in Slush: 2016 – Neil Clarke.
The best writing apps for your Mac, iPad and iPhone.
If Trump Fans Love Freedom, They Should Love Net Neutrality.
The internet warriors: meet the 'trolls' in their own homes – video. This is... disturbing and enlightening at the same time.
Stop Auto-Play Videos from Annoying You in Your Browser on macOS.
SYSTEMS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN THEY’RE NOT SMART ENOUGH.
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
Thinx Promised a Feminist Utopia to Everyone But Its Employees.
On Cue, Adoring Pro-Trump Outlets Fawn Over February Jobs Report.
Ivanka Trump’s Bitter Scent.
South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-LGBTQ “License to Discriminate” Bill into Law.
Bryan Fischer Again Falsely Claims He Never Said That African Americans ‘Rut Like Rabbits’.
Trans Women Are Women. This Isn’t a Debate.
THE LADY WHO FENDED OFF AN ASSAULT IN GOLDEN GARDENS WOULD LIKE JWP TO STOP USING HER STORY TO FUNDRAISE.
Tenn. protesters drown out Trump backer by chanting 'bless your heart. One on-line friend explained that 'Bless your heart' is Southern slang for 'You're a self-defeating fool'; my Great-aunt Evabel (that I've wound up quoting a couple of times this week) had a way of saying it scathingly that communicated 'You don't have the sense the good lord gave a rock!'
If We Don’t Act Now Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian. Uh, Fascism has already kicked down the door and is in our faces!
How Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson Fought Trump and Won America's Heart. (the photo illustrations that look like teen magazine covers are hilarious!)
New Fox News Poll Finds Bernie Sanders, Planned Parenthood, and ObamaCare More Popular Than Donald Trump.
Donald Trump called the economy 'a mess' and the unemployment rate 'a hoax' when Obama was President—then a miracle occurred.
Intel committee member says Trump ceded US power: He made Putin ‘the most powerful man in the world’.
Did Donald Trump leak his own tax returns? Many pundits believe he did and here's why. The fact that this Whitehouse had a full statement (with at least one lie in it, of course) seconds after the first tweet teasing the news story is a very clear indication that they leaked it themselves. The article outlines more evidence, and the reasons why they would do it.
Senate Intel Committee Rebukes Trump: ‘No Evidence…That Trump Tower was Under Surveillance’.
Trump Travel Order Raises Specter of 'Superior Race': Hawaii Attorney General.
U.S. Ethics Official To White House: No, These Rules Definitely Apply To You.
Conway suggests Obama bugged Trump using ‘microwaves’. Things went downhill from there.
The EPA's science office removed 'science' from its mission statement.
The EPA Used to Tweet About the Environment. Now It Just Tweets About Scott Pruitt - It's his own PR firm.
Former top Trump aide Flynn paid over $30,000 by Russian TV, top House Dem says.
More Nazis In The White House? Sebastian Gorka May Make Three.
Trump’s Lawyer Threatens Joe Scarborough After MSNBC Host Says Trump Leaked His Own Tax Return.
Why Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose With the G.O.P. Repeal Bill.
The CBO has spoken: Trumpcare will create 24 million uninsured people in the next decade.
New Analysis Shows GOP Health Plan Hits Trump Voters Hardest by Taking Away Thousands of Dollars.
Fact Check: Congressman Dave Reichert’s Misleading Statements About the Threats Posed by His Constituents.
Here's what Trump's budget proposes to cut.
Republicans dismiss Trump's ambitious budget blueprint.
Reporter David Cay Johnston’s family bullied by President’s supporters.
Oklahoma officer charged after accusation that he was drunk, naked, and wearing a MAGA hat. The misdemeanor charge is "Outraging Public Decency.' There's a story with more details here.
Trump supporter indicted for allegedly attacking Muslim woman working at JFK.
New Orleans church window shattered 2 days after it hosted transgender town hall.
LGBT community center in Washington, DC, vandalized, staff member assaulted.
Man breaks into Arizona mosque and rips up copies of Quran inside.
St. Lousis Jewish Community Center among those receiving bomb threats Wednesday. In other words, they guy they arrested last week and had only linked to about 8 of the threats? Not the only one.
Federal authorities investigating Jewish center threats as hate crimes.
What It Feels Like When a Mosque Is Threatened.
Proposal would increase hate-crime penalties.
Gunshots Fired at Tennessee Funeral After Mourner Makes Anti-Gay Remark About Deceased.
Man charged with hate crime for attack on transgender woman after tryst.
Author, 'Modern Love' Essayist Amy Krouse Rosenthal Dies At 51.
Amy Rosenthal's Lively, Personal 'Encyclopedia'.
It’s OK to be OK: The subtle inspiration of Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
A Heart-Shaped Life: Twelve Ways of Looking at Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
NYPD Officer who twerked at parade dies of 9/11-related cancer.
Weekend Update 3/11/2017: Ex-gay torture, dark clouds, and darker motives.
Orlando Pulse Shooting must be remembered for the anti-queer hate crime that it was.
Sleep disturbances.
Let’s talk about (fictional) talking!
This Video of a Rabbi, a Priest, and an Atheist Smoking Weed and Discussing Faith is Delightful:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
MICROWAVES (Are Watching You!) - Randy Rainbow Song Parody:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Chubby Siberian Tigers Hunt Electronic Bird of Prey:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
BUG! "So You Think That You Can Fix Him" by David:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
I set up the Friday Links posts on Thursday evening to publish in the morning on Friday. About the time this posts to my FontFolly.Net blog in the morning, I'll be leaving the house taking my husband to the hospital. He's having surgery, it's a something he's been meaning to take care of for awhile. If everything goes as planned, I'll get to bring him home again on Saturday. Between prepping for that, continuing the packing, and usual work things, I didn't write as much this week.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
Links of the Week
Woman finds boy who left $5, heartbreaking apology note.
If you cried over the first link last week, you may need another tissue for this: Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of 'You May Want to Marry My Husband', dies at 51 . (Links to more remembrances are below in the Farewells section)
Daylight saving time is just one way standardized time zones oppress you.
Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute.
Restoring Our Faith in the Rule of Law
Federal Court In Hawaii Blocks Donald Trump’s New Travel Ban Nationwide.
This Week in the Economy
A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth.
This Week in Difficult to Classify
A disturbing reality behind that Chinese tiger drone video making the Internet rounds.
5-Year-Old Girl Becomes The Sole Carer Of Her Grandmas, After Her Mother Abandons Her.
This week in awful news
Judge: Army, FBI aware soldier a ‘substantial risk’ before he killed Marysville man and his girlfriend.
Dreamer stuck in detention, but case stays in federal court.
This week in awful people
Here's What Happened At The Parents Of Trans Kids Mardi Gras Float.
Ironic Nazis Are Still Nazis - Hatred often hides behind a mask of jokiness.
First they came for Pepe: How “ironic” Nazism is taking over the internet.
One from the archives (I actually remember linking to this and some related stories about four years ago) .
And more recently: Putting the 'Neo' Back in 'Neo-Nazi'.
Last month: A white guy with a net worth of $124m making poor brown people hold up a sign calling for genocide is pure banter, isn’t it?
And to look at it academically: Derogating humor as a delegitimization strategy in intergroup contexts.
This week in awful people who only have themselves to blame
GOP Politician, Trump Surrogate Arrested for Soliciting Sex With Boy. Was state campaign chair for Trump, and he's voted for anti-trans and anti-gay bills, and more details: GOP Senator Surrenders On Three Felony Child Prostitution Charges, More Details Emerge.
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman Is Big Trouble With The Feds.
News for queers and our allies:
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority Announces It Will Accept Transgender Women.
Father and Daughter Come Out as Transgender.
RuPaul marries rancher boyfriend after 23 years together.
Federal regional bank appoints its first gay, black President and CEO.
Students wear rainbow colors to honor bullied trans teen who took her life.
Most Americans support LGBTQ rights across the board.
Science!
Atheist parents are better at raising children.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
Aliette de Bodard on Diversity and Gender Roles in House of Shattered Wings.
R. Scott Bakker’s Novels: Brilliant and Deeply Flawed.
The Year in Slush: 2016 – Neil Clarke.
This week in Writing
The best writing apps for your Mac, iPad and iPhone.
This Week in Tech
If Trump Fans Love Freedom, They Should Love Net Neutrality.
The internet warriors: meet the 'trolls' in their own homes – video. This is... disturbing and enlightening at the same time.
Stop Auto-Play Videos from Annoying You in Your Browser on macOS.
SYSTEMS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN THEY’RE NOT SMART ENOUGH.
This Week in Misogyny in Tech
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
Thinx Promised a Feminist Utopia to Everyone But Its Employees.
This Week in Enablers
On Cue, Adoring Pro-Trump Outlets Fawn Over February Jobs Report.
Ivanka Trump’s Bitter Scent.
Culture war news:
South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-LGBTQ “License to Discriminate” Bill into Law.
Bryan Fischer Again Falsely Claims He Never Said That African Americans ‘Rut Like Rabbits’.
Trans Women Are Women. This Isn’t a Debate.
This Week in Fighting Back in the Culture War:
THE LADY WHO FENDED OFF AN ASSAULT IN GOLDEN GARDENS WOULD LIKE JWP TO STOP USING HER STORY TO FUNDRAISE.
Tenn. protesters drown out Trump backer by chanting 'bless your heart. One on-line friend explained that 'Bless your heart' is Southern slang for 'You're a self-defeating fool'; my Great-aunt Evabel (that I've wound up quoting a couple of times this week) had a way of saying it scathingly that communicated 'You don't have the sense the good lord gave a rock!'
This Week in the Resistance:
If We Don’t Act Now Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian. Uh, Fascism has already kicked down the door and is in our faces!
How Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson Fought Trump and Won America's Heart. (the photo illustrations that look like teen magazine covers are hilarious!)
New Fox News Poll Finds Bernie Sanders, Planned Parenthood, and ObamaCare More Popular Than Donald Trump.
This Week Regarding the Lying Liar:
Donald Trump called the economy 'a mess' and the unemployment rate 'a hoax' when Obama was President—then a miracle occurred.
Intel committee member says Trump ceded US power: He made Putin ‘the most powerful man in the world’.
Did Donald Trump leak his own tax returns? Many pundits believe he did and here's why. The fact that this Whitehouse had a full statement (with at least one lie in it, of course) seconds after the first tweet teasing the news story is a very clear indication that they leaked it themselves. The article outlines more evidence, and the reasons why they would do it.
Senate Intel Committee Rebukes Trump: ‘No Evidence…That Trump Tower was Under Surveillance’.
News about the Fascist Regime:
Trump Travel Order Raises Specter of 'Superior Race': Hawaii Attorney General.
U.S. Ethics Official To White House: No, These Rules Definitely Apply To You.
Conway suggests Obama bugged Trump using ‘microwaves’. Things went downhill from there.
The EPA's science office removed 'science' from its mission statement.
The EPA Used to Tweet About the Environment. Now It Just Tweets About Scott Pruitt - It's his own PR firm.
Former top Trump aide Flynn paid over $30,000 by Russian TV, top House Dem says.
More Nazis In The White House? Sebastian Gorka May Make Three.
Trump’s Lawyer Threatens Joe Scarborough After MSNBC Host Says Trump Leaked His Own Tax Return.
This week in Politics:
Why Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose With the G.O.P. Repeal Bill.
The CBO has spoken: Trumpcare will create 24 million uninsured people in the next decade.
New Analysis Shows GOP Health Plan Hits Trump Voters Hardest by Taking Away Thousands of Dollars.
Fact Check: Congressman Dave Reichert’s Misleading Statements About the Threats Posed by His Constituents.
Here's what Trump's budget proposes to cut.
Republicans dismiss Trump's ambitious budget blueprint.
This Week in Racists, White Nationalists, and the deplorables
Reporter David Cay Johnston’s family bullied by President’s supporters.
Oklahoma officer charged after accusation that he was drunk, naked, and wearing a MAGA hat. The misdemeanor charge is "Outraging Public Decency.' There's a story with more details here.
Trump supporter indicted for allegedly attacking Muslim woman working at JFK.
This Week in Hate Crimes
New Orleans church window shattered 2 days after it hosted transgender town hall.
LGBT community center in Washington, DC, vandalized, staff member assaulted.
Man breaks into Arizona mosque and rips up copies of Quran inside.
St. Lousis Jewish Community Center among those receiving bomb threats Wednesday. In other words, they guy they arrested last week and had only linked to about 8 of the threats? Not the only one.
Federal authorities investigating Jewish center threats as hate crimes.
What It Feels Like When a Mosque Is Threatened.
Proposal would increase hate-crime penalties.
Gunshots Fired at Tennessee Funeral After Mourner Makes Anti-Gay Remark About Deceased.
Man charged with hate crime for attack on transgender woman after tryst.
Farewells:
Author, 'Modern Love' Essayist Amy Krouse Rosenthal Dies At 51.
Amy Rosenthal's Lively, Personal 'Encyclopedia'.
It’s OK to be OK: The subtle inspiration of Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
A Heart-Shaped Life: Twelve Ways of Looking at Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
NYPD Officer who twerked at parade dies of 9/11-related cancer.
Things I wrote:
Weekend Update 3/11/2017: Ex-gay torture, dark clouds, and darker motives.
Orlando Pulse Shooting must be remembered for the anti-queer hate crime that it was.
Sleep disturbances.
Let’s talk about (fictional) talking!
Videos!
This Video of a Rabbi, a Priest, and an Atheist Smoking Weed and Discussing Faith is Delightful:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
MICROWAVES (Are Watching You!) - Randy Rainbow Song Parody:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Chubby Siberian Tigers Hunt Electronic Bird of Prey:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
BUG! "So You Think That You Can Fix Him" by David:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, March 10, 2017
Friday Links (what would Buffy do edition)
It's Friday! We're a couple weeks into March already. It's been a weird work week, because the cold that I didn't quite shake off has developed an annoying cough and a fever, so I've been trying to avoid people since I'm probably contagious. I've also been sleeping a lot.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
You May Want to Marry My Husband. I made the mistake of reading this while riding the bus into work. I was sobbing...
'Alternative facts': A psychiatrist explains the difference between falsehoods and lies. There's a part of me that thinks it is ridiculous that anyone needs this explained. And I don't think enough attention is paid to the problem of people not caring whether something is true as long as they like it.
A Statue of a Defiant Girl Now Confronts the Famous ‘Charging Bull’ on Wall St.
An Ivy League professor who spent 4 months working in a South Bronx check-cashing store says we're getting it all wrong.
There’s no bull in the message behind ‘Fearless Girl’ statue.
Simons’s Renaissance Technologies Equity Fund Rose 4.6% in June. US billionaire Robert Mercer who bankrolled Leave.eu didn't make $16m after Brexit. His fund made $690m.
John Barrowman celebrates 50th birthday by showing off his natural hair.
95-year-old comes out as gay in powerful must-see video.
Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival.
Safe as Houses.
Veteran who was to lead St. Patrick's Day parade quits over decision to bar gay vets.
How Does the Public’s View of Science Go So Wrong?
Does Ceres still have currently active (erupting!) cryovolcanoes?
The Most Important Idea about the Universe.
Scientists Might Finally Understand One of the Most Basic but Mysterious Aspects of Our Heartbeats.
Mosul offensive: Assyrian artifacts discovered in abandoned ISIS tunnels.
Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like.
'Buffy' at 20: 13 Key Players on How It Changed TV and Why There Shouldn't be a Revival.
'Buffy' at 20: Gail Berman Reflects on the Rocky Road to Air and How It Could Return.
'Buffy' at 20: What the Critics Originally Said About the Joss Whedon Favorite.
Love science fiction and fantasy series? Better also love being patient.
'Are you ready to be strong?': The enduring legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Gave Me My Own Scooby - Into every generation, a best friend is born.
The Complex Feminist Legacy Of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
20 Things We Still Love About Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 Years Later.
Wells At The World's End: The Time Machine.
In Search of Lost Tweets: On Being a Writer on Twitter.
Prepone - An Indian English word which means "to move to an earlier time".
Using 'Lady,' 'Woman,' and 'Female' to Modify Nouns - 'Female' doctor? 'Lady' lawyer? 'Woman' politician? Are any of these not offensive?
The Serial Comma - Why don't they call it the Merriam-Webster comma?
You're probably familiar with the term hot mess. But do you know how old hot mess really is?
An Unknown Latino Tuskegee Airman Has Been Discovered.
Errata Security: Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak.
Google's Algorithm Is Lying to You About Onions and Blaming Me for It .
Google’s “One True Answer” problem — when featured snippets go bad.
Keep your cool when facing possibilities like SHA-1, Cloudflare, and the shoddy Internet of Things.
WikiLeaks' CIA Hack: 9 Key Questions on Latest Document Dump - How reliable is Vault 7, the information allegedly leaked from the Central Intelligence Agency? For starters, nothing stated by WikiLeaks or Assange should be taken at face value.
Don’t Fall for the Area Code Scam.
NPR demonstrates how not to report on LGBT issues — four different times.
Rachel Maddow on How She Doubled Viewership Under Trump: ‘I Stopped Covering the Twitter Feed’. “We started covering only what they do rather than what they say,” MSNBC host tells TheWrap of recent ratings surge
An Asexual’s Defense of Jughead Kissing Betty on Riverdale. “Allowing Jughead to have “an origin story,” as Aguirre-Sacasa says, is not letting the character or the community down (yet). Giving him a coming-out narrative could create a dialogue about the asexual experience we have literally never seen before on broadcast TV. Of course, if Riverdale gets more seasons and it fails to develop Jughead’s asexuality, that would indeed be a disappointing omission, and a missed opportunity to do something truly new and brave with a character onscreen.”
A Bookstore Is Displaying All Books By Men Backward, And It’s Eye-Opening.
Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends trans student wrestler Mack Beggs in amazing takedown.
OKLAHOMA: Tulsa LBGT Center Riddled With Bullets, Man Later Accosts Staff With Homophobic Slurs.
Why Is Franklin Graham So Obsessed With LGBTQ People?
What Do Feminists Owe Kellyanne Conway? As one person noted on Twitter, the answer is “A fair trial.”
Christians Are Treating a Comedy Skit About “Christian Persecution” As Proof of Actual Persecution.
Stop Using Women And Girls To Justify Transphobia.
A Field Guide to Straightsplaining. An oldie, but worth re-reading...
Introducing the enemies of the American people: George Rodrigue.
People Walk Out As Ala. Official Pushes Voter ID At Selma Anniversary Service.
Nordstrom, Warby Parker and Etsy Pull Ads from Breitbart.
Resistance Art: This Amazing Sign Just Appeared on the Fence Surrounding the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station.
Remove health-care subsidies for Members of Congress and their families.
Trumpism is now getting exposed as a monumental fraud.
Stephen King mocks Trump wiretap allegations with short story.
When One President Smears Another.
Trump Knows the Feds Are Closing In on Him - The president’s recent tweets aren’t just conspiratorial gibberish – they’re the erratic ravings of a guilty conscience.
Canadian woman en route to Vermont spa denied entry to U.S., told she needs immigrant visa.
All 100 Senators Sign Letter Demanding Action on Jewish Center Bomb Threats.
Sean Spicer wrongly claims Fox reporter's phones were 'tapped'.
It's Do-or-Die for Repeal-and-Replace.
Time to talk Trump impeachment: Jason Sattler.
House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law.
Wow: Nervous Georgia GOP re-gerrymanders state House to protect vulnerable Republicans.
Rep. Joe Kennedy calls GOP health care repeal bill ‘an act of malice’.
The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained.
Suspect in gay-bashing attack out on bond, fighting extradition to the Keys.
Cyberstalking Charge Brought In Manhattan Federal Court Against Missouri Man For A Pattern Of Harrassment Involving Threats To Jewish Community Centers.
Man charged with threatening Jewish centers to frame his ex.
Sikh community asks for hate-crime probe after man is told ‘go back to your own country’ and shot.
Another wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers happened today.
It’s the day to March Forth!
Game over, man!
There are worse things than invisibility—decoding is just another form of erasure.
Confessions of a public restroom avoider.
She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness — more of why I love sf/f.
FDR "Let Me Warn You":
(Embedding is disabled, so click here.)
Discovery Channel Song:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
The xx - Say Something Loving (Official Music Video):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
Links of the Week
You May Want to Marry My Husband. I made the mistake of reading this while riding the bus into work. I was sobbing...
'Alternative facts': A psychiatrist explains the difference between falsehoods and lies. There's a part of me that thinks it is ridiculous that anyone needs this explained. And I don't think enough attention is paid to the problem of people not caring whether something is true as long as they like it.
A Statue of a Defiant Girl Now Confronts the Famous ‘Charging Bull’ on Wall St.
This Week in the Economy
An Ivy League professor who spent 4 months working in a South Bronx check-cashing store says we're getting it all wrong.
There’s no bull in the message behind ‘Fearless Girl’ statue.
This week in awful people
Simons’s Renaissance Technologies Equity Fund Rose 4.6% in June. US billionaire Robert Mercer who bankrolled Leave.eu didn't make $16m after Brexit. His fund made $690m.
Fabulous, Darling!
John Barrowman celebrates 50th birthday by showing off his natural hair.
News for queers and our allies:
95-year-old comes out as gay in powerful must-see video.
Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival.
Safe as Houses.
Veteran who was to lead St. Patrick's Day parade quits over decision to bar gay vets.
Science!
How Does the Public’s View of Science Go So Wrong?
Does Ceres still have currently active (erupting!) cryovolcanoes?
The Most Important Idea about the Universe.
Scientists Might Finally Understand One of the Most Basic but Mysterious Aspects of Our Heartbeats.
Mosul offensive: Assyrian artifacts discovered in abandoned ISIS tunnels.
Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
'Buffy' at 20: 13 Key Players on How It Changed TV and Why There Shouldn't be a Revival.
'Buffy' at 20: Gail Berman Reflects on the Rocky Road to Air and How It Could Return.
'Buffy' at 20: What the Critics Originally Said About the Joss Whedon Favorite.
Love science fiction and fantasy series? Better also love being patient.
'Are you ready to be strong?': The enduring legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Gave Me My Own Scooby - Into every generation, a best friend is born.
The Complex Feminist Legacy Of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
20 Things We Still Love About Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 Years Later.
Wells At The World's End: The Time Machine.
This week in Writing
In Search of Lost Tweets: On Being a Writer on Twitter.
This week in Words
Prepone - An Indian English word which means "to move to an earlier time".
Using 'Lady,' 'Woman,' and 'Female' to Modify Nouns - 'Female' doctor? 'Lady' lawyer? 'Woman' politician? Are any of these not offensive?
The Serial Comma - Why don't they call it the Merriam-Webster comma?
You're probably familiar with the term hot mess. But do you know how old hot mess really is?
This Week in History
An Unknown Latino Tuskegee Airman Has Been Discovered.
This Week in Tech
Errata Security: Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak.
Google's Algorithm Is Lying to You About Onions and Blaming Me for It .
Google’s “One True Answer” problem — when featured snippets go bad.
Keep your cool when facing possibilities like SHA-1, Cloudflare, and the shoddy Internet of Things.
WikiLeaks' CIA Hack: 9 Key Questions on Latest Document Dump - How reliable is Vault 7, the information allegedly leaked from the Central Intelligence Agency? For starters, nothing stated by WikiLeaks or Assange should be taken at face value.
Don’t Fall for the Area Code Scam.
This Week in Covering the News
NPR demonstrates how not to report on LGBT issues — four different times.
Rachel Maddow on How She Doubled Viewership Under Trump: ‘I Stopped Covering the Twitter Feed’. “We started covering only what they do rather than what they say,” MSNBC host tells TheWrap of recent ratings surge
This Week in Inclusion
An Asexual’s Defense of Jughead Kissing Betty on Riverdale. “Allowing Jughead to have “an origin story,” as Aguirre-Sacasa says, is not letting the character or the community down (yet). Giving him a coming-out narrative could create a dialogue about the asexual experience we have literally never seen before on broadcast TV. Of course, if Riverdale gets more seasons and it fails to develop Jughead’s asexuality, that would indeed be a disappointing omission, and a missed opportunity to do something truly new and brave with a character onscreen.”
A Bookstore Is Displaying All Books By Men Backward, And It’s Eye-Opening.
Culture war news:
Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends trans student wrestler Mack Beggs in amazing takedown.
OKLAHOMA: Tulsa LBGT Center Riddled With Bullets, Man Later Accosts Staff With Homophobic Slurs.
Why Is Franklin Graham So Obsessed With LGBTQ People?
What Do Feminists Owe Kellyanne Conway? As one person noted on Twitter, the answer is “A fair trial.”
Christians Are Treating a Comedy Skit About “Christian Persecution” As Proof of Actual Persecution.
Stop Using Women And Girls To Justify Transphobia.
A Field Guide to Straightsplaining. An oldie, but worth re-reading...
This Week in the Resistance:
Introducing the enemies of the American people: George Rodrigue.
People Walk Out As Ala. Official Pushes Voter ID At Selma Anniversary Service.
Nordstrom, Warby Parker and Etsy Pull Ads from Breitbart.
Resistance Art: This Amazing Sign Just Appeared on the Fence Surrounding the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station.
Remove health-care subsidies for Members of Congress and their families.
This Week Regarding the Lying Liar:
Trumpism is now getting exposed as a monumental fraud.
Stephen King mocks Trump wiretap allegations with short story.
When One President Smears Another.
Trump Knows the Feds Are Closing In on Him - The president’s recent tweets aren’t just conspiratorial gibberish – they’re the erratic ravings of a guilty conscience.
News about the Fascist Regime:
Canadian woman en route to Vermont spa denied entry to U.S., told she needs immigrant visa.
All 100 Senators Sign Letter Demanding Action on Jewish Center Bomb Threats.
Sean Spicer wrongly claims Fox reporter's phones were 'tapped'.
This week in Politics:
It's Do-or-Die for Repeal-and-Replace.
Time to talk Trump impeachment: Jason Sattler.
House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law.
Wow: Nervous Georgia GOP re-gerrymanders state House to protect vulnerable Republicans.
Rep. Joe Kennedy calls GOP health care repeal bill ‘an act of malice’.
This Week in Racists, White Nationalists, and the deplorables
The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained.
This Week in Hate Crimes
Suspect in gay-bashing attack out on bond, fighting extradition to the Keys.
Cyberstalking Charge Brought In Manhattan Federal Court Against Missouri Man For A Pattern Of Harrassment Involving Threats To Jewish Community Centers.
Man charged with threatening Jewish centers to frame his ex.
Sikh community asks for hate-crime probe after man is told ‘go back to your own country’ and shot.
Another wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers happened today.
Things I wrote:
It’s the day to March Forth!
Game over, man!
There are worse things than invisibility—decoding is just another form of erasure.
Confessions of a public restroom avoider.
She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness — more of why I love sf/f.
Videos!
FDR "Let Me Warn You":
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Discovery Channel Song:
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The xx - Say Something Loving (Official Music Video):
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Friday, March 3, 2017
Friday Links (nevertheless he perjured edition)
It's Friday! Go check out this week's round up: Friday Links (nevertheless he perjured edition).
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